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| Composer | Cesti, Antonio (1623-1669) |
| Period | Baroque |
| Year | 1656 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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ViennaOrontea
Cesti: Orontea
Wolfgang Katschner; Tomo Sugao; MusikTheater an der Wien; Julia Katharina Berndt; Karl Wiedemann; Lautten Compagney
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Cesti’s Orontea: an early rarity at La Scala
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Giovanni Antonini leads a splendid orchestral performance of Cesti’s masterpiece, featuring an outstanding cast headlined by Carlo Vistoli.
Physical comedy detracts from Pinchgut's musically ravishing Orontea
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Ravishing music and performances, a crazy G&S plot, but physicality that tends to distract in Constantine Costi's production.
17th-century L'Orontea in Budapest goes millennial
Opera director András Almási-Toth’s whimsical updating of an early Baroque opera by Antonio Cesti switches the composer’s L'Orontea from 1656 to 2016.